Bright Ideas - Morning Routines Made Easy
As you know, mornings can be absolutely nutso with interruptions and surprises.
In order to tackle a few routines and make life a wee bit easier, here are a few things that have worked for me.
Here are two routines that really helped simplify my mornings...
Tub to return Book Club Envelopes (along with numbered duct tape on the envelopes)...
and magnetic Morning Jobs board...
(I'm super sorry for the less than stellar images....darn glossy laminate!)
We start at the very beginning of the year with the first 3 items...we build muscle memory for those jobs with step by step practice & choral reading on a daily basis.
Once they're pretty solid on those three (and once guided reading and Everyday Math Homelinks begin), we add jobs 4-6 and repeat the process of building muscle memory in similar ways as at the beginning of the year. More about job 4 in a minute...
After a few weeks of deepening all six routines, we add #7.
And now for this super handy tub...
Each Book Club Group (guided reading) is assigned a color....red, orange, yellow, green, blue...
Each envelope has corresponding duct tape in the upper right corner to make it easy for students to correctly put their envelope in their section. And, when groups change, it's actually pretty easy to take the duct tape off the envelope.
Each group has a section in the tub, in front of the fancy dancy (Ha.) divider.
To make the dividers I trimmed 12x12 cardstock to the width of old, icky whiteboards (cuz they're hard and I'm a fan of re-purposing stuff), folded the cardstock in half and adhered it to the whiteboard using clear packing tape.
More functional than classy, but oh well.
One side of the divider says Put in Book Box, the other says Keep in Envelope...that's because we almost always focus on a guided reading book for two days...and on new book days they put their current book in their book box...on reread days they keep it in the envelope.
A student flips those divider signs accordingly at the end of the group time so it's ready for the next day's meeting...
What morning routines do you have that help start the day smoothly-ish?
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A student flips those divider signs accordingly at the end of the group time so it's ready for the next day's meeting...
What morning routines do you have that help start the day smoothly-ish?
If you did enjoy this post, please consider following me on Facebook, Teachers pay Teachers, and/or Pinterest!
There are LOTS of other Bright Ideas for you to read about from 150 bloggers...make sure to check them out below!
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